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James River Genco LLC

Coal power plant in Virginia, United States. Approximate location 37.2939, -77.2697.

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James River Genco LLC is an coal power plant in Virginia, United States. It is operated by City Point Energy Center LLC. It ranks #259 of 263 United States power plants by installed capacity.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-2093.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in United States

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by City Point Energy Center LLC.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.7°Cannual mean temp
1,932heating degree-days (base 18°C)
736cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
33 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 15 °CON: 10 °CND: 5 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 42/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

United States has 45 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 28 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.2939, -77.2697 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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